Outstanding. [8D]
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RE: Poland Can Into Space! (take 2)
I'm enjoying this AAR very much!
Good work! [:)]
Good work! [:)]
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Things have not quite gone according to plan! Plus, a new and terrible enemy! In..
Session Seven: You call that a war?
The First Ugnari War was a pretty bad show of planning for the Polish Army, although an unqualified success for Polish Intelligence, the Polish Navy, and the Polish Diplomatic Corps. At the outset of the war, in late 2769, we can see the complete strategic situation:
The fleets had nearly reached their targets, when the high command realized that the planets in the northern sector--the most vulnerable to counter-attack--had no troops! The plan is modified accordingly: The Invasion Flotilla will continue towards their target, dropping troops without a formal declaration of war. We realize this is bad form, but who cares? They're just aliens. The Main Battle Fleet will hang back in the Northern Sector, awaiting the counter-attack we were sure was coming.
The Invasion Flotilla waits for the signal... the assault is set to coincide with the destruction of a vital Gas station. They wait...
Waiting....
Go!
They respond with a declaration of war! We wait.. We know they should be having fuel trouble right about now, and we also know that we have numerical superiority, but as this is the first ever war by the Polish Empire against an Alien foe, we are not sure what to expect! The Northern Sector waits...
And we continue to wait. And wait. And wait. By this point we have destroyed more than half of the gas stations in their Empire courtesy of Angent Tarfan. Could it be that they are truly crippled? We decide to go out on a limb, and offer them peace in exchange for tribute--an agreement that we could live with, as they will at least know their place.
Following the end of the war--which we can now rightly claim to have won before it even began!--there was a time of great prosperity and peace. Humans were humans, and aliens were slaves. Life was good. Taxes, of course, were raised appropriately. The idea being that as soon as a population is big enough to reproduce faster than they can emigrate, we raise taxes! Is this mean, and unfair? Probably. We do not care.
But one man was vigilant during these times of peace! There's no sleep and no rest for this secret agent, who had been sent to investigate rumours of a powerful, large, and technologically advanced empire to our 'west'. We have been waiting for a year for his return!
What he found was the Lyras Prime Technocracy. They don't seem violent, but they are definitely alien, and powerful! Even though we have a larger navy, we suspect that this is a bear we don't want to poke.
We are no slouches, though! The Polish Empire is doing rather well for itself. The Question now becomes how to control our part of the galaxy, while keeping the Quameno away and avoiding a war? Alliance is out of the question, since they are so gross... but we'll think of something!
Session Seven: You call that a war?
The First Ugnari War was a pretty bad show of planning for the Polish Army, although an unqualified success for Polish Intelligence, the Polish Navy, and the Polish Diplomatic Corps. At the outset of the war, in late 2769, we can see the complete strategic situation:
The fleets had nearly reached their targets, when the high command realized that the planets in the northern sector--the most vulnerable to counter-attack--had no troops! The plan is modified accordingly: The Invasion Flotilla will continue towards their target, dropping troops without a formal declaration of war. We realize this is bad form, but who cares? They're just aliens. The Main Battle Fleet will hang back in the Northern Sector, awaiting the counter-attack we were sure was coming.
The Invasion Flotilla waits for the signal... the assault is set to coincide with the destruction of a vital Gas station. They wait...
Waiting....
Go!
They respond with a declaration of war! We wait.. We know they should be having fuel trouble right about now, and we also know that we have numerical superiority, but as this is the first ever war by the Polish Empire against an Alien foe, we are not sure what to expect! The Northern Sector waits...
And we continue to wait. And wait. And wait. By this point we have destroyed more than half of the gas stations in their Empire courtesy of Angent Tarfan. Could it be that they are truly crippled? We decide to go out on a limb, and offer them peace in exchange for tribute--an agreement that we could live with, as they will at least know their place.
Following the end of the war--which we can now rightly claim to have won before it even began!--there was a time of great prosperity and peace. Humans were humans, and aliens were slaves. Life was good. Taxes, of course, were raised appropriately. The idea being that as soon as a population is big enough to reproduce faster than they can emigrate, we raise taxes! Is this mean, and unfair? Probably. We do not care.
But one man was vigilant during these times of peace! There's no sleep and no rest for this secret agent, who had been sent to investigate rumours of a powerful, large, and technologically advanced empire to our 'west'. We have been waiting for a year for his return!
What he found was the Lyras Prime Technocracy. They don't seem violent, but they are definitely alien, and powerful! Even though we have a larger navy, we suspect that this is a bear we don't want to poke.
We are no slouches, though! The Polish Empire is doing rather well for itself. The Question now becomes how to control our part of the galaxy, while keeping the Quameno away and avoiding a war? Alliance is out of the question, since they are so gross... but we'll think of something!
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Such a racist civilization... these humans... 
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Such a racist civilization... these humans...
Well, I'd be racist too if I poked my head into space, and the only thing I saw for ten years was alien pirates! [:D]
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And now, for your amusement, we have a tale of adventure on the black sea! A tale of brave colonists and horrible tragedy! In..
Session Eight: The Broken Hoard - A Tale of Dissapointment
In late 2771, a colony ship full of brave Polish folk embarked on a journey for a distant world! They would expand our borders to frontiers, as well as alleviate some of the bad overcrowding on Warsaw. Things, in general, are going well for the Empire. Our leader has proven capable in spite of his iron fist and conservative views, and our subjegation of the Ugnari is paying massive trading dividends. This is good. All we need are more colonies!
Thirty million of the best and brightest Polish citizens board the colony ship Broken Horde! It sets off. First travelling through the well-guarded and comfortable zone of friendly space within Warsaw's influence.
They then reach the end of friendly space, and start into the Middle Expanse--a spot we can't exploit yet without better colonization technology, but one that the 7th Fleet guards well.
They keep going into the massively wealthy Northern Resource Area. This is guarded jealously by our fleets, and all those Ugnari civilian ships are at our mercy as they cross one of our most heavily militarized zones.
They pass through the remains of a Super Nova that serves as an unnoficial limit of Polish expansion.
They are nearly there! Wait.. what's that in the distance?
No! Rat bastards! The colonists aboard the Broken Hoard are most upset about this, and fly off to refuel before trying again somewhere else.
This happened frequently enough in the 2770s that there was an entire genre of holocinema named after it: "Spaghetti Colonizers" They were characterized by low budgets, bad actors, cheezy sound tracks, and lots of bad special effects.
Stay tuned...
Session Eight: The Broken Hoard - A Tale of Dissapointment
In late 2771, a colony ship full of brave Polish folk embarked on a journey for a distant world! They would expand our borders to frontiers, as well as alleviate some of the bad overcrowding on Warsaw. Things, in general, are going well for the Empire. Our leader has proven capable in spite of his iron fist and conservative views, and our subjegation of the Ugnari is paying massive trading dividends. This is good. All we need are more colonies!
Thirty million of the best and brightest Polish citizens board the colony ship Broken Horde! It sets off. First travelling through the well-guarded and comfortable zone of friendly space within Warsaw's influence.
They then reach the end of friendly space, and start into the Middle Expanse--a spot we can't exploit yet without better colonization technology, but one that the 7th Fleet guards well.
They keep going into the massively wealthy Northern Resource Area. This is guarded jealously by our fleets, and all those Ugnari civilian ships are at our mercy as they cross one of our most heavily militarized zones.
They pass through the remains of a Super Nova that serves as an unnoficial limit of Polish expansion.
They are nearly there! Wait.. what's that in the distance?
No! Rat bastards! The colonists aboard the Broken Hoard are most upset about this, and fly off to refuel before trying again somewhere else.
This happened frequently enough in the 2770s that there was an entire genre of holocinema named after it: "Spaghetti Colonizers" They were characterized by low budgets, bad actors, cheezy sound tracks, and lots of bad special effects.
Stay tuned...
RE: Poland Can Into Space! (take 2)
Very nice AAR! [:)]
How do you embed multiple screenshot files like you are doing into a single post? When I try to do that, it says you are limited to just one per post.
How do you embed multiple screenshot files like you are doing into a single post? When I try to do that, it says you are limited to just one per post.
RE: Poland Can Into Space! (take 2)
@StarWolf
Imagehosting. Photobucket.com is common choice.
You basically upload your pics to photobucket and use
when making posts. There's a button too for it.
Imagehosting. Photobucket.com is common choice.
You basically upload your pics to photobucket and use
Nothing is impossible, not if you can imagine it!
"And they hurled themselves into the void of space with no fear."
"And they hurled themselves into the void of space with no fear."
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Very nice AAR! [:)]
How do you embed multiple screenshot files like you are doing into a single post? When I try to do that, it says you are limited to just one per post.
I am linking to a third party image hosting website called Photobucket. Very handy for this sort of thing! I'm hoping it's not too much, as I'm enjoying doing this image heavy approach.
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Ahh, I see. I considered using that approach but decided not to when I saw that the pics are deleted from the server after a set period of time (usually 30 days) if they are not accessed. I've run into old AARs that just have blanks in them where the screenies should be due to that and it irks me so I decided to use the more permanent solution. I going to try a little experiment though that might let me have it both ways.
RE: Poland Can Into Space! (take 2)
I would recommend you to a homepage server. I got 250 MB of storage there for personal usage. Though it is intended ot be used on your homepage... some can be linkes elsewhere too.
One Thread To Guide Them All
"Nothing incorporeal wields such power as a word. Though it is the weapon of the smart and cunning it alas needs the same to prevail."
"Nothing incorporeal wields such power as a word. Though it is the weapon of the smart and cunning it alas needs the same to prevail."
RE: Poland Can Into Space! (take 2)
Fantastic AAR!
I used to use Photobucket, but I dimly recall some limits on how much I could store there, or something. Of late, I've just been using Matrix's one-pic-per-post uploading, but this AAR tempts me to rethink that. I do have access to a friend's web-hosting service; I use it for posting pics on other forums. It's just a bit more work than simply clicking 'embed pic in post' and 'click here to upload' on these forums.
But wow, your use of montages really is eye-popping. I will have to try that. Also, how do you get that zoomed-in look for your main galaxy map? OK, that's a dumb question: I guess you just...zoom in, lol. What resolution are you playing in?
I kinda skipped over some elements of your story because I want to avoid spoilers. But I still have the overall thrust. Just tremendous.
I used to use Photobucket, but I dimly recall some limits on how much I could store there, or something. Of late, I've just been using Matrix's one-pic-per-post uploading, but this AAR tempts me to rethink that. I do have access to a friend's web-hosting service; I use it for posting pics on other forums. It's just a bit more work than simply clicking 'embed pic in post' and 'click here to upload' on these forums.
But wow, your use of montages really is eye-popping. I will have to try that. Also, how do you get that zoomed-in look for your main galaxy map? OK, that's a dumb question: I guess you just...zoom in, lol. What resolution are you playing in?
I kinda skipped over some elements of your story because I want to avoid spoilers. But I still have the overall thrust. Just tremendous.
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RE: Poland Can Into Space! (take 2)
ORIGINAL: StarWolf
Ahh, I see. I considered using that approach but decided not to when I saw that the pics are deleted from the server after a set period of time (usually 30 days) if they are not accessed. I've run into old AARs that just have blanks in them where the screenies should be due to that and it irks me so I decided to use the more permanent solution. I going to try a little experiment though that might let me have it both ways.
Try http://imageshack.us/
I've got images that they've had on that site for several years now. I don't post a lot of images there, so there may be an issue if you try and host too many, but so far I've had no problems with them.
Jim
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Image Shack will not let you direct link any more. A shame, since I used to use them for AARs back in the dizz-ay.
I have all the images saved to my hard drive, organized so it can be re-produced in a PDF format for posterity should I this ever finish. It's a lot of work making those montages! Takes longer than actually playing the game.
It gives me an idea for my next AAR though.. to do it in a comic-book style format with PDF.
I have all the images saved to my hard drive, organized so it can be re-produced in a PDF format for posterity should I this ever finish. It's a lot of work making those montages! Takes longer than actually playing the game.
It gives me an idea for my next AAR though.. to do it in a comic-book style format with PDF.
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Ahh.. the 2770s. Remember those? Those were the days. Men were real men. Women were real women. And aliens were shining your boots every day during your lunch break. Time to fast-forward in time! In...
Session Nine: We're Not in Eastern Europe Anymore
The 2770s were a golden age of colonization for the Polish Empire, and the entire Human Race! We have managed to establish contact with all of the Empires in our region of Space, as well as build up a massive navy. Our economy seems to fluctuate heavily with the market, but since we are constantly colonizing new worlds nobody is bothered. After all, once these new planets fill up and people start paying taxes, it will all pay for itself right? Our Military strength is utterly unrivalled, though in every other way we are rather backwards. Despite our harsh policy of enslavement towards non-humanoid life (which has turned out to be all life in known space, sadly) the Empires of the region treat us like kings and do not suspect ulterior motives for a moment. The only ones who show any hostility are the Ugnari, who chafe under our constant demands for Tribute to keep our bloated military machine afloat. Some speculate that if the Ugnari economy should fail, then so should ours... we dismiss these ideas.
By the 2780s, the Polish Empire had colonized nearly all the Continental and Marshy Swamp worlds within reach. The Ugnari, to our bafflement, managed to expand well into our zones of control despite the strain that paying tribute was supposed to put on their economy...
By 2783, the map has been clearly drawn out. All of the Empires in the Local Cluster are known to us, and only one presents an immediate threat: Our subjegated Ugnari neighbors. Their military strength is nearly half of ours, but far more than half of our fleet is designed for Defensive warfare. Only the Main Battle Fleet and it's smaller Invasion Flotillas are designed for offensive war. The Grand Strategy is that we can defend our Colonies and Resources indefinitely, but why not have the power to grab a few colonies and damage some gas stations as well? We know already that the Ugnari--the only foe we anticipate having to fight--do not have the guts for prolonged warfare. We intend to exploit this...
Right next door to Polish Space, to the east of the Northern Resource Area, there is world that contains the much-desired Korrabian Spice. Not only would it solve all of our economic woes--which are many at the moment, as we struggle to wait for the population to start covering the cost of our immense Imperial Navy--but taking that world would also deny it to the Ugnari, and give us a chance to weaken them. If we can also take a few worlds near the Northern Sector or the Shandar Zone, all the better. We intend this to be a quick war, but if it does drag out we are confident we can fend off attack indefinitely.
Our Brave and Noble Emperor!
The status of our great Empire. We are mighty, but our economy can only hold out for so long. We have made some money selling technology, but as we are technologically backwards ourselves there are precious few buyers. Korrabian Spice and Ugnari Slaves are the answer!
Here is a map of the Polish Empire and neighboring Space. Notice that world that has a target on its' back...
Yes. We want this very much. And we aim to take it!
Our Navy is immense, but the vast majority of it is built around an intricate defensive network of overlapping zones of control. Only the Main Battle Fleet and two Flotillas carrying 60 Troops are allocated for Offensive purposes. We know we can take the system with the Spice, but we also think we can take several more before we have to back off and regroup. While we're doing that, we have more than enough power on defense!
It's a big galaxy, and we're just one small cluster--but boy, it feels crowded! Nothing even remotely human outside of the Polish Empire. It's going to be a long century.
We are not the biggest Empire. We are not the most advanced, or the wealthiest. We do, however, have an enormous fleet that needs to be put to work in order to pay for itself.
Stay tuned.. it's Poland Into Space! The Same Generation But a Little Later!
Session Nine: We're Not in Eastern Europe Anymore
The 2770s were a golden age of colonization for the Polish Empire, and the entire Human Race! We have managed to establish contact with all of the Empires in our region of Space, as well as build up a massive navy. Our economy seems to fluctuate heavily with the market, but since we are constantly colonizing new worlds nobody is bothered. After all, once these new planets fill up and people start paying taxes, it will all pay for itself right? Our Military strength is utterly unrivalled, though in every other way we are rather backwards. Despite our harsh policy of enslavement towards non-humanoid life (which has turned out to be all life in known space, sadly) the Empires of the region treat us like kings and do not suspect ulterior motives for a moment. The only ones who show any hostility are the Ugnari, who chafe under our constant demands for Tribute to keep our bloated military machine afloat. Some speculate that if the Ugnari economy should fail, then so should ours... we dismiss these ideas.
By the 2780s, the Polish Empire had colonized nearly all the Continental and Marshy Swamp worlds within reach. The Ugnari, to our bafflement, managed to expand well into our zones of control despite the strain that paying tribute was supposed to put on their economy...
By 2783, the map has been clearly drawn out. All of the Empires in the Local Cluster are known to us, and only one presents an immediate threat: Our subjegated Ugnari neighbors. Their military strength is nearly half of ours, but far more than half of our fleet is designed for Defensive warfare. Only the Main Battle Fleet and it's smaller Invasion Flotillas are designed for offensive war. The Grand Strategy is that we can defend our Colonies and Resources indefinitely, but why not have the power to grab a few colonies and damage some gas stations as well? We know already that the Ugnari--the only foe we anticipate having to fight--do not have the guts for prolonged warfare. We intend to exploit this...
Right next door to Polish Space, to the east of the Northern Resource Area, there is world that contains the much-desired Korrabian Spice. Not only would it solve all of our economic woes--which are many at the moment, as we struggle to wait for the population to start covering the cost of our immense Imperial Navy--but taking that world would also deny it to the Ugnari, and give us a chance to weaken them. If we can also take a few worlds near the Northern Sector or the Shandar Zone, all the better. We intend this to be a quick war, but if it does drag out we are confident we can fend off attack indefinitely.
Our Brave and Noble Emperor!
The status of our great Empire. We are mighty, but our economy can only hold out for so long. We have made some money selling technology, but as we are technologically backwards ourselves there are precious few buyers. Korrabian Spice and Ugnari Slaves are the answer!
Here is a map of the Polish Empire and neighboring Space. Notice that world that has a target on its' back...
Yes. We want this very much. And we aim to take it!
Our Navy is immense, but the vast majority of it is built around an intricate defensive network of overlapping zones of control. Only the Main Battle Fleet and two Flotillas carrying 60 Troops are allocated for Offensive purposes. We know we can take the system with the Spice, but we also think we can take several more before we have to back off and regroup. While we're doing that, we have more than enough power on defense!
It's a big galaxy, and we're just one small cluster--but boy, it feels crowded! Nothing even remotely human outside of the Polish Empire. It's going to be a long century.
We are not the biggest Empire. We are not the most advanced, or the wealthiest. We do, however, have an enormous fleet that needs to be put to work in order to pay for itself.
Stay tuned.. it's Poland Into Space! The Same Generation But a Little Later!
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The Polish Empire is starting to remind me of Haven in the Honor Harrington books.... [:'(]
LOL.
ORIGINAL: Gelatinous Cube
This happened frequently enough in the 2770s that there was an entire genre of holocinema named after it: "Spaghetti Colonizers" They were characterized by low budgets, bad actors, cheezy sound tracks, and lots of bad special effects.
Stay tuned...
LOL.
"Evil is easy, and has infinite forms." -- Pascal
RE: Poland Can Into Space! (take 2)
I'm curious how you're doing in terms of victory points.
And forgive me for drifting into a gameplay question, but I keep meaning to ask: what do the horizontal colored bars mean in the diplomatic screen? Strategic value? What factors go into calculating strategic value?
And forgive me for drifting into a gameplay question, but I keep meaning to ask: what do the horizontal colored bars mean in the diplomatic screen? Strategic value? What factors go into calculating strategic value?
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I remain in the top five, but never higher than number three.ORIGINAL: Grotius
I'm curious how you're doing in terms of victory points.
And forgive me for drifting into a gameplay question, but I keep meaning to ask: what do the horizontal colored bars mean in the diplomatic screen? Strategic value? What factors go into calculating strategic value?
Also, i'm pretty sure the two biggest factors are GDP and Military Strength.
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Are you ready for more!? It's time for our next foray into Combat! In...
Session Ten: The Spice Must Flow
We want that spice. No, really. You don't understand. We want that Spice! More importantly, we want to slap these Rats back into their place. We may just be a backwater Empire with a bloated Navy, but darnit.. it's a good Navy! And with a booming population, we need more slaves, as well!
The Main Battle Fleet makes its way towards the Endillean system. A large Ugnari fleet waits...
This is a wealthy system. The aim of this war is simply to capture this entire system, and return the Ugnari to subjegation. We are running out of money fast, and we want this to be a quick war. The fleet enters the system.
As in the first war, we are strong believers in Declarations of War. However, we would compare our philosophy towards diplomacy to that of the NYPD. We knock with nuclear bombs, and then leave a note afterwards with demands for your unconditional surrender.
The battle goes in our favor. The Ugnari hesitate to declare war, at least half of their fleet is destroyed or dispersed in the initial confusion.
As our drop ships land all over the enemy planet, our Ambassador finally delivers the formal declaration of war.
Our plan involves patience. We know we have overwhelming force. We also have an overwhelming amount of troops in nearby systems. There is no reason not to take this one slow, and give each planet the attention it deserves.
There is a brief counter-attack, but against the might of the Main Battle Fleet (who sufferent significant, but not crippling, casualties) they stood no chance. They are routed.
Elsewhere, a predominately human system very near the Ugnari Homeworld revolts, and joins us!
There were counter-offensives all along our borders...
Against our unparalleled Defensive Networks, however, they met a bitter end. The moment they entered our space--and often well before--they were marked for destruction.
After about a year of open warfare (but with no further invasions outside of the Endillean System--which was conquered utterly) that was largely one-sided, the Ugnari once again submit to us.
The Spice will flow...
The Northern Resource Area has a different look, now--but with the addition of the all-important Korabbian Spice it is now even more vital to our Empire!
It is 2785, and we have had nearly 30 years of Interstellar Travel. We can only hope for more success in the future!
Stay tuned...
Session Ten: The Spice Must Flow
We want that spice. No, really. You don't understand. We want that Spice! More importantly, we want to slap these Rats back into their place. We may just be a backwater Empire with a bloated Navy, but darnit.. it's a good Navy! And with a booming population, we need more slaves, as well!
The Main Battle Fleet makes its way towards the Endillean system. A large Ugnari fleet waits...
This is a wealthy system. The aim of this war is simply to capture this entire system, and return the Ugnari to subjegation. We are running out of money fast, and we want this to be a quick war. The fleet enters the system.
As in the first war, we are strong believers in Declarations of War. However, we would compare our philosophy towards diplomacy to that of the NYPD. We knock with nuclear bombs, and then leave a note afterwards with demands for your unconditional surrender.
The battle goes in our favor. The Ugnari hesitate to declare war, at least half of their fleet is destroyed or dispersed in the initial confusion.
As our drop ships land all over the enemy planet, our Ambassador finally delivers the formal declaration of war.
Our plan involves patience. We know we have overwhelming force. We also have an overwhelming amount of troops in nearby systems. There is no reason not to take this one slow, and give each planet the attention it deserves.
There is a brief counter-attack, but against the might of the Main Battle Fleet (who sufferent significant, but not crippling, casualties) they stood no chance. They are routed.
Elsewhere, a predominately human system very near the Ugnari Homeworld revolts, and joins us!
There were counter-offensives all along our borders...
Against our unparalleled Defensive Networks, however, they met a bitter end. The moment they entered our space--and often well before--they were marked for destruction.
After about a year of open warfare (but with no further invasions outside of the Endillean System--which was conquered utterly) that was largely one-sided, the Ugnari once again submit to us.
The Spice will flow...
The Northern Resource Area has a different look, now--but with the addition of the all-important Korabbian Spice it is now even more vital to our Empire!
It is 2785, and we have had nearly 30 years of Interstellar Travel. We can only hope for more success in the future!
Stay tuned...